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Just in case you were wondering, it stands for Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion. HQ HQ In 1974, Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architecture professor and sculptor, invented a toy so frustrating that it would haunt children’s nightmares for decades to ...

Penny Punching Princess

Get rich or die trying. HQ Money makes the world go round, or so they say. After all, capitalism is something that we’ve come to be quite familiar with in the west, and has been a hot talking point in ...

Review The Book of Boba Fett – Episode 5

I am writing this opening just ahead of pressing play on the latest episode to ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ and I am nervous. I am nervous because I loved the opening two chapters to this story and started to ...

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

Sega’s open-world crime saga has returned. HQ HQ The Yakuza series has been a well-known name for many years already, but took a giant leap onto the Regular Joe Gamer’s radar with the release of Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 0 ...

Xbox Game Pass Adding Another Day One Release With Besiege's Console Edition

Besiege is coming to console and it'll be included on Game Pass at launch. A console version of the physics-based building game Besiege is in the works, and will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft has announced. It ...

Resident Evil 4 Fan-Made HD Remaster Is Arriving in February

Check out the new trailer for the project. A fan-made Resident Evil 4 remaster has been in the works for eight years, and a new trailer for the finished project is out. Created by Cris Morales and Albert Marin–two guys ...

Wolfenstein II: The Freedom Chronicles

Following the conclusion of the season pass, we’ve been back for another serving of Wolfenstein. HQ HQ We rather liked The New Colossus, and so when the season pass for Machine Games’ viciously satirical shooter came to a conclusion we ...

Island Time VR

We’ve been stranded on Flight School’s desert island. HQ Island Time VR is a small game in several ways. The download doesn’t even weigh in at 500 megabytes, the developer certainly doesn’t have many employees, and then there’s the fact ...

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

Level-5 is back with a bang, delivering us a well-rounded and heartwarming adventure. HQ HQ 2013’s Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch was a game that struck a chord for a select crowd of gamers, with Studio Ghibli’s ...

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Gamereactor visited Fatshark’s offices for a couple of days to play the finished game and write the very first review of this highly-anticipated sequel. HQ HQ It has been a few years since we first became acquainted with our quintet ...

Fable Fortune

The Fable franchise returns with an independently developed card game from former Lionhead staff. HQ HQ With the cancellation of Fable Heroes and the closure of Lionhead Studios you might have thought that the Fable series would not see the ...

Life is Strange: Before the Storm - Farewell

Friends never say goodbye. HQ HQ Life is Strange has entered into players’ lives in a disruptive, unusual, even magical way. It allowed them to connect unexpectedly to its characters and their stories, but above all to their emotions, weaving ...

Octahedron

We’ve been feeling the beat in the latest game to release with support from the Square Enix Collective. HQ When getting our hands-on Octahedron, we couldn’t help but be reminded of past indies Downwell and Crypt of the Necrodancer. Octahedron ...

Agony

Agony by name, agony by nature. HQ HQ Horror fans are spoiled for choice these days and there are plenty of games looking to make things go bump in the night, but Madmind Studio caught our collective attention with its ...

Batman: The Enemy Within - Full Season

Emotionally draining, The Enemy Within provides Bruce Wayne with some of the toughest decisions he’s ever had to make. HQ HQ We weren’t the biggest fans of Batman: The Telltale Series. In addition to numerous technical issues, Telltale’s first game ...

Frostpunk

When humanity is on the brink of extinction, you must make the hard choices in order to survive. HQ HQ It’s an alternate version of the 19th century, where instead of the dawn of civilisation we have seen humanity brought ...

Cultist Simulator

It’s not easy managing a cult. HQ HQ Don’t let the simple card-based presentation fool you; Cult Simulator is a deep game of strategy, resource management, and discovery. In Weather Factory’s debut game we journey into a world shrouded in ...

H1Z1

We’ve been checking out one of the pioneers of the Battle Royale genre since it left Early Access. HQ HQ Despite arriving on the scene well ahead of PUBG, Daybreak’s H1Z1 has had to live very much in the shadow ...

Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality

The developer behind Job Simulator is back with a somewhat frustrating Rick and Morty experience. HQ HQ If Futurama and South Park conceived a child, the result would probably be Rick & Morty, the animated series that tells the adventures ...

Guns of Icarus: Alliance

Muse Games’ airship battles come to PlayStation 4. HQ Phileas Fogg took to the skies in a hot air balloon and went around the world in 80 days. Now imagine if he’d done that with a few friends in a ...

Tennis World Tour

Has Breakpoint served up an ace tennis game? HQ HQ It’s no coincidence that Pong came to be the first successful sports-based video game in the world. Even though it’s technically based on table tennis, there’s something brilliantly simple when ...

City of Brass

After a stint in Early Access, the Arabian Nights-inspired hack ‘n’ slash is swinging onto new platforms. HQ HQ City of Brass draws its inspiration from the tale of the same name found in the many volumes of The Thousand ...

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Trilogy

The first three games in the Ultimate Ninja Storm series arrive on Nintendo’s hybrid console. HQ HQ Naruto video games have achieved a rhythm that should by now be familiar to FIFA players. Developer CyberConnect2 and publisher Bandai Namco released ...

Agatha Knife

Dark humour and a carnivorous religion is at the heart of this point and click adventure. HQ HQ If you like your humour as dark as your coffee, there’s a good chance Mango Protocol’s latest point and click adventure Agatha ...

State of Decay 2

The undead should make great fertiliser for your garden. HQ HQ Bethany is dying. She’d been bitten by a blood plague zombie on a supply run gone wrong. She didn’t have much time left at this point and a decision ...

Death Road to Canada

We’ve been on one hell of a road trip as Rocketcat’s undead adventure shuffles onto console. HQ “There are 15 days worth of driving to Canada, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark ...

Forgotton Anne

A Studio Ghibli-inspired adventure packed with intrigue, wonder, and beauty. HQ HQ You’d be forgiven for having missed talk of ThroughLine Games’ Forgotton Anne up until now (and yes that’s the right spelling by the way), as until we received ...

PlayStation will get three new Call of Duty games despite the acquisition

After the announcement of Microsoft acquiring Activision Blizzard came out, the company will reportedly launch three new Call of Duty titles. According to a recent report from Bloomberg, the games are also likely to make it to Sony’s PlayStation consoles rather than being exclusive ...

Paladins: Champions of the Realm

After a year and a half in early access, we have the full launch. HQ HQ If you’ve heard of Paladins: Champions of the Realm, no doubt you’ve also heard the inevitable Overwatch comparisons and criticisms from the keyboard warriors ...

Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection

An arcade-fun and well-documented piece of history, this is a proper tribute to the genre-establishing series. HQ HQ As we played the Switch version of the game for this review, let’s start with a couple of notes specifically for those ...

Pokémon Legends: Arceus breaks the mould and changes the series’ formula in the right way

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is different in all the right ways Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the latest entry in Game Freak’s long-running line of Pokémon games. Since 1998, the developer has launched 19 games (more if count you both titles in ...

Hyper Sentinel

We’ve been playing the classically-trained shooter on Nintendo Switch. HQ Kickstarted with the promise of delivering blisteringly fast shoot ’em up action in the vein of 1986’s Uridium, Hyper Sentinel is true a love letter to classics of the C64-era. ...

Pokemon Legends Arceus review: "A refreshing take on the Pokemon formula"

Our Verdict Pokemon Legends: Arceus is a refreshing take on the Pokemon formula, stripping back the game to focus on the titular creatures with such great success. It’s just let down by the graphics. Creates a realistic Pokemon world Best ...

Robocraft Infinity

The robot creation slash metal deathmatch that is Robocraft Infinity hits Xbox One. HQ After PC players have been allowed to battle it out with robot creations since almost a year the time has now come for Xbox One players ...

Pokémon Legends: Arceus review - budget bare-minimum, or the series' purest form?

Inspired as much by Pokémon Go as it is Breath of the Wild, Pokémon Legends: Arceus is flimsy and compulsive – and exhilaratingly new. It’s a strange kind of punishment, being a long-term player of Game Freak’s collective Pokémon works. ...

Inked

We’ve been on an artistic adventure. HQ HQ At its core Inked is a puzzle game with platforming elements, although the overarching style and narrative leans towards a more emotional experience than is typical in most games of this ilk. ...

‘As a Prelude to Fear’ Review

Stars: Francis Magee, Lara Lemon, Lucy Drive, Jamie Langlands, Melissa Hollett, Tom Clear, Owen Llwelyn, Roger Wyatt, Peter Rayfield, Amelia Armande, Ron McMillan, Nicola Boreham | Written by Steph Du Melo, Jacob Coen, Roger Wyatt | Directed by Steph Du ...

Space Hulk: Deathwing - Enhanced Edition

We sent a long-time 40K fan to investigate Deathwing following the launch of the Enhanced Edition. HQ HQ In 1975, three men founded a company called Games Workshop, a company which would go on to dominate the world of miniature ...

Pokemon Legends: Arceus Review – What? Pokemon Is Evolving!

Pokemon Legends: Arceus is a significant reimagining of what makes a Pokemon game, with an exciting level of flexibility that's only slightly hampered by a slow early-game grind. In 1996, Pokemon was daring. The oddball RPG was both mechanically simpler ...

Golfy Golf

It’s blocky, it’s colourful, but the appeal doesn’t go very far. When you think of golf you think of a very serious sport where there’s a hush over the crowd as each shot is taken, with celebrations limited to a ...

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